Allin! call! It all happened so quickly we never had the chance to see what exactly was going on. The cards kind of spoke for themselves though. With on the table the two hands that were revealed made for enough of a story.
Stefan Zollinger from Switzerland had in front of him and he shook his head as Chidwick was raking in the chips with still in front of him. Both rivered a straight, Chidwick's was just a tiny bit better.
Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov may have bowed out of this European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event already, but that doesn't mean his trip to Austria won't be a successful one. Last night, Katchalov emerged victorious in the Eureka Poker Tour €2,000 High Roller for €149,400.
The Ukrainian-American bested a field of 455 players to win the title, including a final table involving Dominik Panka and Nikolaus Jedlicka.
Action folded to Aku Joentausta in the hijack and he opened for 10,000. Hector Alvarez Rodriguez tehn three-bet to 23,500 from the cutoff, and Sasa Lalos four-bet all in for roughly 90,000. Joentausta called off for not much more, and then Rodriguez called to put both players at risk.
Joentausta:
Rodriguez:
Lalos:
It was a great spot for Joentausta as both his opponents shared cards, and he was rewarded after the board ran out . Joentausta nearly tripled on the hand while Lalos was sent to the rail.
It’s all tablets and smart phones these days as players at the table interact with followers on social media or play games. Not every player here at the EPT is following the crowd however. Two of the field are reading actual books printed on old school paper.
Timo Pfutzenreuter is reading The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort while Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske is reading Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis.
The description on Amazon reads: “The Inner Game of tennis is that which takes place in our mind, played against such elusive opponents as nervousness, self-doubt and lapses of concentration. It is a game played by our mind against its own bad habits. Replacing one pattern of behaviour with a new, more positive one is the purpose of the "Inner Game". Peak performance at tennis, like any sport, only comes when our mind is so focused that it is still and at one with what our body is doing.”
We picked up the action with around 130,000 in the pot and a board reading . Jonathan Roy was first to act and slid out a bet of 78,000. His opponent, Roman Korenev, thought for well over a minute before announcing that he was all in for 225,000, which put Roy into the tank.
Roy thought for nearly two minutes before dropping in a call, which prompted Korenev to roll over the for a rivered full house. Roy then flashed the to show that he had been two outed.
PokerStars France Poker Series 3 Leaderboard winner, and now a PokerStars Sponsored Player, Miroslav Alilovic just ended up all in for his tournament life preflop against Markus Stranzinger for 90,000 chips.
Stranzinger:
Alilovic:
The board ran out and Alilovic stayed alive in this event.
The bubble burst. Photo courtesy of the PokerStars Blog.
These days the bubble provokes little more than a polite round of applause which fades quicker than it takes the bubble boy to walk through the exit door. Has the bubble lost its excitement? The PokerStars Blog investigates here.
With a lot of stacks the way they are at this point many hands just play themselves and this one was no exception. All in preflop it was Sasa Lalos from Austria with against Swedish PokerStars player Arne Edberg’s .
Gus Hansen opened for 11,000 and right next to him EPT Tallinn winner Kevin Stani shoved all in for a mere 67,500.
After all other players folded, Hansen asked how much it was exactly and then said "I think... I am...". No one really was in doubt the word that would follow was 'calling' as Hansen picked up a blue 5,000 chip and tossed it in at this time. He added some more, finished his sentence and put the cards he had on their back; .
"That's what we call a coin flip" Hansen said as Stani showed .
The didn't hit Stani directly, but it did improve his hand. The on the turn added even more outs as now every jack, ten, ace, king and any club would give him the best hand. "That's close to fifty fifty" Hansen said.
The river was a paint but it wasn't the right one for the Norwegian player; . "Oh my god" Hansen said as he raked in the chips and stacked them ten high.
Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho just locked up a very big double up with an ever bigger hand! Pinho held and he defended from the big blind after which the flop brought .
Pinho check-called on both the flop and the turn, when the popped up. The river brought the and now Pinho lead out for 20,000. Pinho's opponent moved all in for 140,000 and the Portuguese pro snap-called.
Pinho was up against a smaller flush and that gave him a big double up.
on the table the two hands that were revealed made for enough of a story.
in front of him and he shook his head as Chidwick was raking in the chips with still 
in front of him. Both rivered a straight, Chidwick's was just a tiny bit better.
. Joentausta nearly tripled on the hand while Lalos was sent to the rail.
for a rivered full house. Roy then flashed the 
and Edberg hot the rail.
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didn't hit Stani directly, but it did improve his hand. The 
and he defended from the big blind after which the flop brought 
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popped up. The river brought the 
